Safety-cover for poison-bottles



(No Model.)

F. 0. BRATTON.

SAFETY COVER FOR POISON BOTTLES. No. 389,051. Patented Sept. 4, 1888.

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FRED O. BRATTON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SAFETY-COVER FOR POISON-BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,051, dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed May 12, 1888. Serial No. 273,696.

[o tively direct the attention of the handler to the poisonous or injurious contents of the bottle, whereby mistakes may be avoided; and my invention consists in the improved cover or cap for bottles which I shall hereinafter r fully describe and claim.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and readily-operative fastening for the cover or cap, the disengagement of which is sufficiently inconvenient to insure the attention of the handler to what he is doing, and

thus to positively make him aware of the contents of the bottle.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my safetycover, the arms 0 being loosened. Fig. 2 isa perspective view showing its application to the bottle. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the cover and an elevation of the head of the bottle.

A is a bottle, which may be of any suitable shape, having any ordinary neck and head, in the mouth of which is placed the usual stopper or cork.

B is a cover or cap for the head of the bottle, consisting of a cup-shaped or cylindrical piece adapted to fit more or less easily over the head and neck of the bottle.

To one side of the cover or cap, near its base,

0 are secured the opposing arms 0, which are preferably of a springy nature, their bodies being slightly curved to conform to the neck of the bottle and their ends extending or projecting beyond the other side of the cover or 4 5 cap. The side of the cover or cap opposite to where the spring-arms are attached and near the base is provided with a T-shaped groove, b, in which the ends of the springarms are adapted to be secured. The attachment of the spring-arms to the cover or cap may be made in any suitable way, one method being, as here (No model.)

shown, to loop their ends about a pin, d, mounted in a bracket, D, on the back of the cover or cap.

The use of the cover is as follows: The bot tle being securely stopped or corked in the usual manner, the cover is placed over its head and neck, and the ends of the spring-arms being grasped, they are brought together and passed upwardly through the leg of the T- shaped groove or slot into its top portion, when, being freed, they spring outwardly and hold themselves in place, and in this position their curved bodies embrace the neck of the bottle and prevent the cover or cap from coming off or being taken off, because they will not pass over the flange on the head of the bottle.

This covering or cap is intended to be placed upon bottles the contents of which are poisonous or otherwise injurious, so that when the bottle is taken down the attention of the person handling it cannot fail to be called to the character of its contents, both by seeing the cap upon it and also by the comparative inconvenience of taking the cover off. This inconvenience is not such, however, as to result in any difficulty or appreciable loss of time, because when accustomed to releasing the spring-arms the operation is not difficult, although it requires some attention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The cover or cap for bottles having opposing curved spring-arms attached to one side and removably connected with the other side, said arms embracing the neck of the bottle and holding the cap or cover in place, substantially as herein described.

2. In combination with a cap or cover for bottles adapted to fit over the head and neck of the bottle, said cover or cap having a T- shaped groove on one side, the arms connected with the other side of the cover or cap and adapted to engage the T-shaped groove onthe first side, said arms embracing the neck of the bottle, substantially as herein described.

3. The cover or cap for bottles having on one side a T-shaped groove, in combination with the curved spring-arms attached to the other side of the cover or cap and adapted to engage the T-shaped groove on the first side, said arms embracing the neck of the bottle, substantially as herein described.

4. The cover or cap for bottles having on one side a bearing-pin and on the other a T-shaped groove, in combination with opposing springarms pivoted on the pin on one side of the cover or cap, said arms having projecting ends adapted to engage the T-shaped groove on the 10 other side of the cover or cap, whereby the arms may embrace the neck of the bottle and hold the cover or cap in place, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FRED 0. BR ATTON.

\Vitnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, H. 0. LEE. 

